Since 2023, I’ve been circling around the same question: is ESG just another management fashion that will eventually fade like Blue Ocean Strategy, or is it part of a deeper shift where sustainability genuinely reshapes how businesses and their clients behave?
Working on the clients' wildfire-premium practicum this semester reshaped how I understand sustainable investing. It is a way of locating long-term financial risks inside much larger socio-economic systems...
Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations have become increasingly important to corporations in their decision-making and strategies. But a fundamental question remains: what truly drives meaningful ESG progress?
As our practicum project progressed beyond the initial systems-level assessment of Guyana’s forestry sector, our team recognized the need to narrow our scope in order to produce actionable insights for our client...
Sustainable investing, a key player in the global capital landscape, is actively addressing the challenges of climate change and promoting responsible corporate practices...
Finishing the SIRI project really made me reflect on how much my understanding of sustainable investing has developed throughout the semester. Our team worked on quantifying the financial impact of climate-driven wildfires on insurance availability, and honestly, the process of actually measuring the impact became one of the most meaningful parts for me...
The first time I opened our project brief for the Sustainable Investing Practicum, I never imagined how deeply it would pull me into the living, breathing heart of the Amazon and Guyana’s vast forest ecosystems...
As a student of sustainable development, I used to believe that responsible investment is grounded in ethical motivations and a genuine commitment to long-term value creation, which makes it a key driver of sustainability. However, through this project, I had the opportunity to critically question the true purpose of responsible and ESG investment...
In late 2024 and early 2025, the six largest United States banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley, withdrew from the United Nations-backed Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a coalition intended to align global lending portfolios with net-zero emissions by 2050...
Having no prior experience in sustainable investing, I took SIRI Practicum as a way to gain both exposure and experience in how capital flows to companies and projects that make the world a better place...
I did not expect a practicum on HRDD to feel like reading a landscape. As I examined how HRDD takes shape across different industries, I began noticing the quiet patterns...
After a semester of hands-on work, our team progressed through the ARC project from initial concept exploration and framework development to establishing an operational KPI system and a company evaluation prototype...